Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Shall the women
Of a span long
General references
Bible References
Shall the women
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Leviticus 26:29
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters ye shall eat.
Deuteronomy 28:53
And thou shall eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom LORD thy God has given thee, in the siege and in the distress with which thine enemies shall distress thee.
2 Kings 6:28
And the king said to her, What troubles thee? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give thy son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
Jeremiah 19:9
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. And they shall eat each one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, s
Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on thee, and I will scatter to all the winds the whole remnant of thee.
Of a span long
Lamentations 4:13
[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
Psalm 78:64
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
Isaiah 9:14
Therefore LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means. And my people love to have it so. And what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 14:15
Therefore thus says LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I did not send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.
Jeremiah 23:11
For both prophet and priest are profane. Yea, in my house I have found their wickedness, says LORD.
Ezekiel 9:5
And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye through the city after him, and smite. Let not your eye spare, nor have ye pity.
General references
Lamentations 3:50
till LORD looks down, and beholds from heaven.
Lamentations 5:12
Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored.
Mark 13:17
But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days.